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It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#baby #born #complete #contend #degeneration

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#change #general #half #head #nods

There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time. ↗

— Bruce Dickinson

#am #else #everybody #everybody else #generic

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#allowed #freedom #general #genius #insight

I feared the defining point of this Hell was its unrelenting uniformity, its lack of variation from type. If there was a heaven at the end of this, it must be filled with great variety, perhaps a multiplicity of intelligent species spread across universes. Yes, heaven would be as full of difference as Hell was of sameness. ↗

— Steven L. Peck

#heaven #hell #sameness #intelligence

I'm pretty quiet. But I love to play sports. I like playing all sports. I'll act goofy at times around my wife and my son, around my own family. I like to have fun in general. ↗

— Steve Blake

#around #family #fun #general #goofy

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#breakfast #forgiven #her #his #man

Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex. ↗

— Yasmine Bleeth

#going #men #sex #think #turn

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#added #arithmetic #awed #crystals #even

These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities. ↗

— Matt Dillon

#benefits #citizens #did #forefathers #gone